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By: Of Swimsuits and Shortstops « Faith and Fear in Flushing

Of Swimsuits and Shortstops « Faith and Fear in Flushing — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:16:49 +0000

[...] individually considering he doesn’t yet have a World Series ring, is Villa Gonzalez’s Jose Reyes, hopefully back in the saddle on Opening Day 2010. San Cristobal’s Jose Vizcaino held down [...]

By: Jacobs27

Jacobs27 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:07:13 +0000

I got a MATSUI 25 shirt right at the end of his tenure with the Mets for the clearance price of 5 bucks. If you can pay the square root of the number, I think that’s a good deal.

By: CharlieH

CharlieH — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:18:58 +0000

Gotta love the Jose!

I’ll always br grateful to him for clarifying some of the lyrics to “La Bamba” (Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan [I'm not a sailor, I'm the captain]) during one of his “Professor Reyes” bits.

By: Jacobs27

Jacobs27 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:32:22 +0000

Thanks, Greg. I’m happy to see it even if it’s a pretty inglorious return. For all my faith, I fear he and Jeff Francoeur would battle it out for lowest OBP.

Power though. At least we’d see some home runs if he made the club. Too bad he and Murph both bat lefty. Memorable first time aside, I don’t think he’s much of a pinch hitter, but he could probably still be a good emergency catcher. I wonder if it’s not too late to reintroduce that part of his repertoire. Had it going on the Cyclones.

I think it’s a good move, basically no risk, right? Maybe we’ll get lucky. And thus Mets baseball entices me back with its phantasmal possibilities and all that is sure and solid melts into air.

By: Inside Pitcher

Inside Pitcher — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:00:03 +0000

It’s simple, but it says it :)

By: Greg Prince

Greg Prince — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:48:27 +0000

Tasteful!

By: Greg Prince

Greg Prince — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:36:42 +0000

As an uncompromising Ordonez hater, I can tell you without any doubt that when Ordonez missed copious amounts of time, the Mets went to the World Series.

Tou-Shea on the World Series line, but it did take trading Mora (a wonderful player and a second-line favorite of mine during his too-short Met tenure, but not a shortstop) for Bordick to steady the ship en route to the 2000 Fall Classic. Ordonez was not an all-around gift, but his once-in-a-lifetime glovework left me with blinders to his multiple shortcomings.

And Leiter could have gone more than 0 innings in Game Six.

By: Dave Murray

Dave Murray — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:36:14 +0000

I can’t pass up a good team store sale, either. And there are a lot of Sheffield t-shirts still over in the Comerica Park fan shop, too, all on clearance!

Jose will be back, and we all will be better for it!

By: l.m.b.

l.m.b. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:37:59 +0000

Nice work, Greg. I can empathize with you because I know exactly what it is to buy Mets themed items that I need to have only because I trick myself into believing that I need to have them. I disagree with your line about Ordonez: ” Whenever Rey Ordoñez missed copious amounts of time, the Mets seemed to tangibly suffer.”

As an uncompromising Ordonez hater, I can tell you without any doubt that when Ordonez missed copious amounts of time, the Mets went to the World Series. And while it’s usually unreasonable to blame one player for a team’s loss, I personally hold Ordonez responsible for single-handedly denying the Mets and the City of New York a 1999 World Subway Series. Was there ever a more feeble display of hitting than Ordonez’s “performance” in the 1999 NLCS?

By: Inside Pitcher

Inside Pitcher — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:25:02 +0000

I know what you mean about not being able to boycott all things Metsian. I just purchased this (ostensibly for spring training, but the bottom line is that it just looks cute on me) -

http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3223876&clickid=body_rv_img